Iran closed down two opposition newspapers on Monday, one of which had recently poked fun at hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the way his government has handled nuclear talks with the West.

Iran's most prominent reformist daily, Shargh, or East, ran a cartoon Thursday depicting a horse and donkey facing each other on a chess board. The donkey - a symbol of ignorance in Iranian culture - has his mouth open and light around him, while the horse shows no emotion.

Iranian judiciary officials apparently took the donkey to represent Iran in nuclear negotiations with the West, journalists said.

Why, Mahmoud is operating just like the Liberals in the U.S. acted in their failed mission to censor and ban the broadcasting of "The Path To 9/11"! All you Libs must be proud that you're more like Mahmoud than the FREE SPEECH supporters that you pretend to be.- - -Woman jailed four months for Boiling Puppy Alive and then leaving it to die. Sky News.